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        <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#FFFF90"><font size="3">Open 
          Source ST-Sound Library </font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#FFFF90" size="3">by 
          Arnaud Carr&eacute;<br>
          </font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#FFFF90"><font size="3">v1.2</font></font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#FFFF90" size="3"><br>
          <font color="#FFFFFF">10 years later !! :-)</font></font></font></p>
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          <td colspan="2"><b><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#FFFFFF">History...</font></b></td>
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            <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">In 
              1995 I created the <a href="http://leonard.oxg.free.fr/stsound.html">YM 
              file format and wrote ST-Sound</a>, a program to play ATARI-ST on 
              your PC. I was very happy to see how ST-Sound was popular. MS-Dos 
              player at first, I write a Windows player, a winamp and a netscape 
              plugin. ( then some website use Atari tunes !).</font></p>
            <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">And 
              then time passed and I worked on other stuff. Quite often, some 
              people asked me to release the source code, and I always answered 
              that I should clean some code and add license stuff, so I never 
              take time..</font></p>
            <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Now 
              it's done ! 2005, ten years after the first ST-Sound creation, here 
              is the ST-Sound library with sample project, all under GPL license. 
              The code is not as clean as I hope but no time to change it. Don't 
              forget almost all that stuff was written in 1995 :-)</font></p>
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            <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">ST-Sound 
              library package comes with four main directories.:</font></p>
            <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>StSoundLibrary</b></font></p>
            <blockquote> 
              <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">This 
                is the most important directory. Portable ( I hope !! :-)) C++ 
                code to play YM files into your own production. There is a simple 
                &quot;C like&quot; user API, and you just need to include &quot;StSoundLibrary.h&quot; 
                to work with YM files. See tutorial projects for details. Theorically 
                should compile under windows, linux, etc.</font></p>
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            <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>YmToWav</b></font></p>
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              <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Tutorial 
                code. Portable ( I hope !! :-)) code to render an YM file into 
                a WAV file. Works in command line. theorically should compile 
                under windows, linux, etc. </font></p>
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            <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>SmallYmPlayer</b></font></p>
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              <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Tutorial 
                code. Non portable (windows only) real time YM player using StSoundLibrary. 
                Works under windows (use the waveOut sound API)</font></p>
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            <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>YmSampleFiles</b></font></p>
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              <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Only 
                contains a set of YM sample files to fastly test the library without 
                browsing the whole world wide web ! :-)</font></p>
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            <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The 
              package is done to work very nicely with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 
              ( Visual .NET is pure bullshit! )</font></p>
            <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">For 
              Visual C++ 6.0 users: Load StSoundGPL.dsw file into your lovely 
              IDE and just build one of the tutorial sample or the main library. 
              Everything should work like a charm without pain.</font></p>
            <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">For 
              other users ( .NET, Linux, Gameboy color or other strange system), 
              just search in your head some very, very oldschool knowledge and 
              build a nice makefile :-) ( should be easy for StSoundLibrary) </font></p>
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            <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">ST-Sound 
              library, Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Arnaud Carr&eacute; ( <a href="http://leonard.oxg.free.fr">http://leonard.oxg.free.fr</a> 
              )</font></p>
            <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">ST-Sound 
              library is distributed under <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU 
              GPL license</a>. If you use it in your own production, please include 
              at least that ZIP package and make me a little credits :-). You 
              can find the GPL legal file within that package ( license.txt ).</font></p>
            <p> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">As 
              almost all YM files on the web are packed with LZH method, ST-Sound 
              includes LZH depacking code written by Haruhiko Okumura and modifyed/improved 
              by Kerwin F. Medina.</font></p>
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      <p align="left">Enjoy ATARI-ST sound !!</p>
      <p align="left"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><a href="http://leonard.oxg.free.fr" target="_blank">http://leonard.oxg.free.fr</a></font></p>
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